Oved Lobel

(image: Chinese Foreign Ministry)

Misunderstanding the Middle East in the wake of the Iran-Saudi deal

March 29, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Foreign Minister Penny Wong questioned on Iran before the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee on Feb. 16 (screenshot)

Australia needs to take more decisive action regarding Iranian threats against its citizens

March 1, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Remnants of an Iranian Shahed-136 "suicide drone" in Ukraine, designated as Geranium-2 in Russian.

Russo-Iranian drone factory will eventually haunt the Middle East

February 10, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Labor intervenes to protect the IRGC from terror listing

February 3, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Alexey Milchakov, founder of the neo-Nazi Rusich unit that links Wagner and the Russian Imperial Movement (source: @P_Kallioniemi)

Russia is the Iran of White Supremacy

January 31, 2023 | Oved Lobel

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Australia once again the odd one out on Iran

January 25, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with leaders of the IRGC (Image: Twitter)

IRGC listing trend snowballing domestically and internationally

January 16, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends the graduation ceremony of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Teheran, Iran (Credit: Salampix/ABACA Press/TNS/Alamy Live News)

Iran’s transnational terrorists should be proscribed

January 11, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Time for Australia to list the IRGC as a terrorist group

January 5, 2023 | Oved Lobel

Left to Right: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

The Russo-Iranian alliance comes to Europe

December 1, 2022 | Oved Lobel

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Iran’s revealing submission to the Australian parliament

November 23, 2022 | Oved Lobel

The first  documented image of an Iranian Shahed-136 (Geranium-2 in Russian) in Ukraine. Unlike most of its allies, Australia has yet to even condemn Iran for providing such weapons to Russia, much less impose sanctions (source: Twitter/@kms_d4k)

Australia’s inaction on Iran sends a dangerous message to China

November 16, 2022 | Oved Lobel